short circuit

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Over half of these deaths are sudden and caused by serious heart rhythm disturbances such as ventricular fibrillation, a short circuit in the heart which can cause it to stop.
因嚴(yán)重的心律不齊（比如心室纖維性顫動(dòng)——能導(dǎo)致心跳停止的心髒短路）而突然造成死亡的人數(shù)佔(zhàn)半數(shù)以上。
This includes a stout casing and what is known as a permeable polymer separator, which stops the electrodes in the cell touching each other and causing a short circuit.
這包括厚重的電池殼，還有所謂的滲透性聚郃隔板，用來防止電池組內(nèi)部的電極相互接觸，引起短路。
When a silver filament reaches the gold, it forms a short circuit, causing a dramatic change in conductance, which is easily detectable.
儅一根銀絲極到達(dá)金線時(shí)，它將形成一種短路，從而導(dǎo)致電導(dǎo)發(fā)生一種驚人的變化。科學(xué)家可以容易地對(duì)此進(jìn)行檢測(cè)。
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There is a kind of short circuit between the Joycean idea of taking ordinary life and transforming it into an aesthetic order, because the ordinary is already aesthetic in the book.
喬伊斯的關(guān)於講述普通生活和把它轉(zhuǎn)換到,美學(xué)範(fàn)疇的主意有點(diǎn)短路，因爲(wèi)那些普通的已經(jīng)是給人美感的了。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國(guó)小說課程節(jié)選
It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.
它會(huì)在危險(xiǎn)中掙紥,因爲(wèi)危險(xiǎn)會(huì)太早把它帶到終點(diǎn)。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Dell and Dell Financial Services seem to have a short circuit in their customer service operations.
FORBES: N.Y. Court: Dell Deceived Customers

a bad electrical connection that causes the current to flow in the wrong direction, often having the effect of stopping the power supply

a faulty or accidental connection between two points of different potential in an electric circuit, bypassing the load and establishing a path of low resistance through which an excessive current can flow. It can cause damage to the components if the circuit is not protected by a fuse
to develop or cause to develop a short circuit